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HAIR CURLER Filed Oct. 15. 1924 Fig.5.

J- Wm ELIZABETH COOK Patented June 2, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ELIZABETH COOK, OF SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH.

HAIR CURLEB.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELIZABETH Coon, a citizen of the United States, residing at Salt Lake City, in the county of Salt Lake and 5 State of Utah, have invented a certain new and useful Im rovement in Hair Curlers. of which the f lowing is a specification.

This invention relates more particularly to such hair curling devices as are applied to the hair by women and girls before res tiring and the object of the invention is to provide an improved construction of such device whereby it may be more expeditiously applied and with better effect than those heretofore proposed.

The invention is embodied in the example herein shown and described, the features of novelty being finally claimed.

In t e accompanyin drawing- Figure 1 is a front e evation of the device in opened condition.

Fig. 2 is a section on the line IIII,

Fig 1.

i 3 illustrates the rolled up and securef condition of the curler such as when ap lied to a lock of hair.

ig. 4 is a cross sectional view of a rolled up curler showing how the projecting ends 0 the rolling member bind t e curler apron from slipping or unrolling.

In the views 5 desi mates a flexible strip or a ron of woven fabric, preferably linen, of 0 long form and which if for use on bobbed hair can be in the neighborhood of two and a half inches wide and three and a half inches long. At one end the strip 5 has attached to or formed with it by suitable stitching or otherwise a tube or casin 6 of fabric somewhat longer than the widtli of the strip 5 so as to extend at each end -be 0nd the edges of said stri and in said tu e is permanentl confine by stitching the ends of the poo et a flexible but inelastic strip of metal 7 such for example as soft copper or lead or a suitable alloy of either M of them adapted to be easily bent and to re main bent until purposely unbent by the fingers of the hand. The end of the curler containing the strip 7 can be denominated the rolling end of the curler because the other end is held while said end is rolled up toward it. At the other end of the strip 5 is formed by stitching a casing or hem 8 in which is confined by stitching, as before, a stiffenin member 9 preferably of flat metal or fir example a doubled piece of stiff wire of hair pin form adapted to retain its form. The member 7 referred to is preferably wider than thick to facilitate starting the curling operation.

The mode of use is as follows: A look of the hair is laid spread out on the strip 5 extended, as shown in Fig. 1, with the ends of the hair terminating near the hem at the bottom and the strip and lock rolled or folded over and over compactly together until the top member or binding 8 is reached, after which the projecting ends of the pocket and strip 7 are bent over onto the roll as depicted in Fig. 3 preferably just below the pocket containing the sti ening member 9 as shown in Fi 4 thus firmly binding together the rolled curler until it is desired to remove it at which time the binding end or ends are bent up and the curler removed.

The forms of the parts can be changed without departing from the gist of the invention as claimed.

What I claim is:

A hair curler composed of a flexible apron of substantially rectangular form, a flexible non-resilient rolling member secured along one end of said apron and normally extending in the plane thereof beyond the edge of the apron and a stiffening member secured alon the other end of said apron and parallel iv adjacent which stiffening member the aforesaid extendin end of the rolling member is bendable to lie when the curler is rolled up to cooperate therewith to prevent unrolling of the curler.

ELIZABETH COOK. 

